With me it wasn't the superstition but the quietness of the song. It worked the way a meditation might. This was before meditation was popular. I'm sure that's how prayer works too, through its meditative, repetitive quality, by focusing the mind. I don't really meditate. I've always liked Glen Campbell. Bobby McGee, especially by Janice Joplin but I'll take Kris Kristofferson, is on my list of ten all time best songs ever written. > [Original Message] > From: Ursula Stange <Ursula@xxxxxxxxxx> > To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Date: 12/27/2005 12:25:41 AM > Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: FW: Six Characters in Search of an Author > > Superstitious behaviour works every time. I used to say the Lord's > Prayer just under my breath whenever my kids woke at night. I believed > (still do) that my chanting put them magically back to sleep. And it > was the chanting...I didn't have to mean it...just mouth the > words...incantatory...magic... > Ursula > > Andy Amago wrote: > > >I used to use him to get to sleep a gazillion years ago. When I couldn't > >get to sleep, in my mind I'd sing I was a lineman for the county ... Worked > >every time. I have this vague idea I heard him interviewed once. A > >dysfunctional person, like everybody. I'm wearing out this word > >dysfunctional. Now I'm sure people read my posts when they can't get to > >sleep. That's because I'm dysfunctional. That's why I think that. > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------ > To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off, > digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html ------------------------------------------------------------------ To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off, digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html